Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brechtwas a German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century. He made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter through the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble – the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 February 1898
CityAugsburg, Germany
CountryGermany
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.
If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to common sense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face
One must live well to know what living is.
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.
If you don't have fun, you don't have a show.